Oct. 2, 2017, 3:17 p.m.

Viewpoint has told Paraclete officials that its football team intends to forfeit a scheduled game on Oct. 13 because the Patriots are down to 14 players, Paraclete Coach Dean Herrington said Monday.

Paraclete was scheduled to have its homecoming on Oct. 13 and its bye on Oct. 20. Herrington is scrambling to find a replacement game.

Viewpoint Athletic Director Patrick Moyal said three families sent him emails that they would not allow their sons to play Paraclete because of safety concerns. Viewpoint also would have been without another player who has a college visit. Moyal said he made the decision to forfeit

Oct. 2, 2017, 10:24 a.m.

Mission Viejo Coach Bob Johnson is retiring at the end of the 2017 season. (Allen J. Schaben)

Bob Johnson, the winningest high school football coach in Orange County history, will retire at Mission Viejo at the end of this season, Johnson confirmed Monday.

"It's time," he said.

Mission Viejo is 6-0 this season. Johnson has 339 career coaching victories while coaching at Mission Viejo, El Toro and Los Amigos. He's won eight Southern Section championships, including five at Mission Viejo, where he arrived in 1999.

Oct. 2, 2017, 9:50 a.m.

In the Los Angeles Unified School District, this is the week for 10-week report cards. That means players who have done their work will become eligible to play football on Oct. 18, while others could become ineligible.

Hawkins will be in the City Section Division I playoffs whether it wins any games or not because of an automatic berth, so adding the players should make the team more competitive in the Coliseum League.

Oct. 2, 2017, 7:11 a.m.

With a 35-9 victory over Torres, Santee (5-0) has moved to the top in City Section Division III.

Santee has never won a City title and is in its 11th year of playing football. Co-coaches David Tejada and John Petty learned from former coach Glenn Bell.

Leading the team has been quarterback Brian Escamilla and junior runnng back Joseph Todd. Escamilla ran for 198 yards and Todd gained 180 yards in the win over Torres. Both have more than 800 yards each rushing this season.

Sep. 30, 2017, 9:11 a.m.

The Trinity League begins next weekend, and the intensity level should be very high. The trash talking among fans has already begun.

But the long snappers in the league all like each other. In fact, they're scheduled to train as a group on Sunday under private coach Matt Wigley.

Aidan Livingston and Connor Gallegos of Mater Dei, Derek Bedell of St. John Bosco, Seth MacKellar and Troy Sicaeros of JSerra, Nick Barcelos of Santa Margarita, Jacob Garcia of Servite and Alveste Taylor of Orange Lutheran can have a say in who's going to win the league.